Exam question 1 · The check that settles it

Identify the principal significance of a person's refusal to permit a simple verification of his claim.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, permit, refuse, verify, claim · To what, where: principal significance, simple verification, claim

This is exam question 1 of lesson 451 «The check that settles it» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 significance	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 significance	amod
4	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 refusal	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 person	det
7	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 refusal	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 person	case
9	refusal	refusal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 significance	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 permit	mark
11	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Identify	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 verification	det
13	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 verification	amod
14	verification	verification	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 permit	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 claim	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 claim	nmod:poss
17	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 verification	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal significance of a person's refusal	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent significance=Theme
2	permit	to-infinitive	you not said here	a simple verification of person's claim	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verification=Theme
3	refuse		a person		nom refusal «communication transitive»: poss=agent
4	verify			person's claim	nom verification «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	claim		person		nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

It may indicate that the claim is untrue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 indicate	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 indicate	aux
3	indicate	indicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 untrue	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 claim	det
6	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 untrue	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 untrue	cop
8	untrue	untrue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 indicate	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	may	It						vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
2	is	present	the claim					untrue property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It proves conclusively that the claim is true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	conclusively	conclusively	ADV	_	2 proves	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 true	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 claim	det
6	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 true	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 proves	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It					conclusively property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the claim					true property	tree rules

Option 3

It indicates that the verifier is at fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 indicates	nsubj
2	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 fault	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 verifier	det
5	verifier	verifier	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fault	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fault	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 fault	case
8	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 indicates	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	It						vn indicate-78-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot
2	is	present	the verifier			fault			tree rules

Option 4

It is of no significance whatsoever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 significance	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 significance	cop
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 significance	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 significance	det
5	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	whatsoever	whatsoever	ADV	_	5 significance	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					of no significance; whatsoever property	tree rules

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